Bryce Johnson - Shaping Faith and Community One Loaf at a Time at TEDxMahtomedi

Bryce Johnson is pastor at White Bear Lake United Methodist Church, where he has served since 1996. Raised in Minnesota, he attended St. Olaf College, then Yale Divinity School. He and his wife, Jody, have three sons, all graduates of Mahtomedi High School. Bryce first developed an interest in bread baking when he was a teenager. While on sabbatical in 2009, he explored historic community bread ovens in Europe. A year later, the congregation he serves built a community oven adjacent to the church. It has become central to the congregation's identity and mission.

In his TEDxMahtomedi talk, Bryce explores how bread making and baking in a wood-fired oven gives us the opportunity to slow down, discover the sacred in the ordinary, and connect with community.

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